Articles for Month: October 2005

China’s anti-Choice champion – Canada comes to the rescue of forced abortion supporting UNFPAhttps://www.westernstandard.ca/website/index.cfm?page=article&article_id=1131 Conservatives must fight off Liberal mud-slinging if they’re to have a prayer of winning next electionhttps://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Jackson_Paul/2005/10/29/1284391.html Ex-Gay Conference Meets with Massive Protest https://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0038421.cfm Voodoo Practitioners Scatter After Katrinahttps://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/31/D8DIUJMG0.html NY Times Not Sure Who Attacked Four Christian Girlshttps://newsbusters.org/node/2602 Documentary tying Arkansas guv Bill Clinton to spread of AIDS to screen in Hollywood next weekhttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47128 The “Ding Dong, The Bush Is Dead” fever rages on – Mark Steynhttps://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20051030-100354-4543r.htm Post-Indictment, A Glut of Media Glee Over Bush Troubles?https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/30/AR2005103001204.html Internet Rules – The Miers denouement shows the power of the […]

James Dobson says "leftist pressure groups . . . have been lining up all day to scream that the sky is falling"

By Terry Venderhaven HOLLYWOOD, October 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Movie star Brooke Shields is pregnant with her second child. She already has a daughter with her husband, TV writer Chris Henchy, conceived by in-vitro fertilization. Presumably this second child is also an IVF baby, although news sources did not reveal this information. Shields wrote about her experience of severe depression following the birth of Rowan Francis in 2003 in her book Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression. Australian researchers revealed in August that women who conceive through IVF are four times more likely to suffer from post-partum […]

PALO ALTO, October 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of foetal stem cells in human clinical trials to treat a rare genetic neurological disorder called Batten disease. The private California-based biotechnology research company, StemCells Inc., proposes to inject the foetal neural cells directly into patients’ brains, in an experiment that closely resembles two others with Parkinson’s patients in 2001 and 2003. Those experiments caused incurable side effects described as “devastating” and “catastrophic” by researchers. StemCells Inc. is a leader in lobbying for the use of living embryos for research, and is the […]

By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, October 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On November 10, 2005, Toronto’s St. Michael’s CathedralÂwill be holding a fundraiser for an event sponsored by St. Michael’s Catholic Hospital to provide “‘Life with Dignity’ to peopleÂaffected by HIV/AIDS in the developing world.” However, Catholics and pro-family groups are concerned that the St. Michael’s Hospital fundraising project, called “Angels in Africa”, contravenes the teaching of the Catholic Church and the best health options for people threatened with AIDS by promoting condom usage. The Angels in Africa campaign, according to the Catholic hospital website, is to fund a joint project of […]

Using pro-euthanasia language appears "to make lies sound truthful and murder acceptable"

By Hilary White PHOENIX, October 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Arizona appeals court has declared that a “pre-embryo” is not a person and cannot be protected as one under the law. A Phoenix-area couple, Belinda and William Jeter, had brought a suit against the Mayo Clinic, accusing it of losing or destroying embryos they had left in the clinic’s care. The court’s decision was based on an Arizona statute that held that, to be protected, a foetal child had to be able to survive outside the womb. The court said it had tried to remain “neutral” in the highly charged […]

Starts with action on pharmacist's conscience rights

By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, October 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This morning US President George W. Bush nominated Samuel A. Alito as Supreme Court Justice. The announcement was well received by conservative groups as well as pro-life and pro-family groups. Alito, 55, is known to pro-lifers for his dissent in the 1991 case Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The case involved a Pennsylvania law that required women to inform their husbands prior to getting an abortion. While the 3rd circuit court struck down the law, Alito argued that problems leading a woman to abortion may be resolved by discussion with her husband, […]

Ottawa, October 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) -Â Bill C-407, the private-members bill proposing to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide is scheduled for its first hour of debate in Parliament on Monday, October 31, 2005. EPC was established in 1999 to prepare a well-informed, broadly based, network of groups and individuals who support measures that will create an effective social barrier to euthanasia and assisted suicide. According to Alex Schadenberg, Executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC), “Bill C-407 is a direct threat to the lives of the people with disabilities, people with chronic physical and mental pain and other vulnerable […]

Don’t Donate to UNICEF this Halloweenhttps://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/oct/05102606.html Missouri Gov. Blunt Pledges To Push for Law Allowing Pharmacists To Refuse To Fill Plan B Prescriptionshttps://kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=33374 Parent wins court battle over evolutionhttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47068 Praise as Abortion Clinic Closeshttps://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/0855BBCE0C7925C9862570A8001376E0?OpenDocument Animal rights activist: ‘Kill the researchers’https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47096 Births to Unmarried U.S. Women Set Recordhttps://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/28/D8DH6FRO3.html ‘Skeptics’ Taking on Religion and Moralityhttps://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny—skepticsconferenc1027oct27%2C0%2C6334204.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork Home- schooled students save taxpayers $10 billion a year https://www.cwalac.org/article_277.shtml Teenage Sexual Abstinence and Academic Achievementhttps://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/whitepaper10272005-1.cfm “God’s Little Trojan Horse on Crutches”: Raymond Arroyo on Mother Angelica https://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2005/vs_rarroyo_oct05.asp Whose Mainstream Is It?https://www.hudson.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=publication_details&id=3779 1 in 5 believe men will carry babieshttps://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2005/10/28/1281980-sun.html DDT Is Only Real Weapon to Combat […]

Excerpts from Articles Conservatives eager to put battles in past, unite behind Bush agenda and next court pick“The conservative movement is more united than ever and looks forward to standing behind a strong nominee in the mold of Scalia and Thomas,” said Jessica Echard, executive director of the Eagle Forum..https://www.washtimes.com/national/20051028-011840-5139r.htm Conservative Demise Greatly Exaggerated  The entire debate was conducted in a spirited but civil way. Far from showing the conservative movement dead, dying, or even “on the ropes,” this lively debate was a model for how responsible citizens should conduct themselves in the public square. Conservatives have nothing to be […]

PHOENIX, October 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Catholic Leadership Conference, an annual gathering of the leaders of over 100 Catholic organizations representing in their memberships over 2 million Americans hasÂreleased a statement on political action. Quoting the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Pope John Paul II, and Cardinal Ratzinger – now the current Pope, the Catholic leaders assert that“The ultimate political goal for Catholics must be the achievement of public policies and laws that result in the legal protection of all innocent human life and that promote the dignity of each human person without exception and compromise.” See the full […]

BOULDER, Colorado, October 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – US researchers have contradicted the bulk of research that supports a correlation between depression and abortion. Nancy Felipe Russo, a Arizona State University-Tempe psychology professor, and Sarah Schmiege, a research associate at the University of Colorado-Boulder, claimed in their joint findings that there is a lower risk of depression in women who abort their first unwanted pregnancy v. women who want their children and who do not abort them. Dr. David Reardon, whose research inspired this subsequent study, told LifeSiteNews.com that this new look at statistics from the US National Longitudinal Survey of […]

PARIS, October 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A priest highly regarded by the French public for his championing of human rights and founding of Emmaus, an international organization to help the poor and homeless, has confessed in a new book to breaking his vows of celibacy. In the book, which will be published soon, he expresses disagreement with the church on priestly celibacy, women’s ordination, homosexuality, and even the celibacy of Jesus Christ. Abbé Pierre, born Henri Groues, who was voted one of France’s most popular personalities so often that he eventually removed his name from the list, admitted in a […]

*** Update: The University claims that Miner did indeed refer to homosexual persons as “subhuman” rather than only homosexual acts.   PITTSBURGH, PA, October 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Duquesne University, which describes itself as “one of the top ten Catholic universities in the nation,” has punished a 19-year-old sophomore for statements made on a website which had no connection to the school. While the mainstream media has frequently repeated that political science and pre-law student Ryan Miner is being sanctioned for calling gays and lesbians ‘subhuman’, Miner told LifeSiteNews.com in an interview he used the word ‘subhuman’ to describe homosexual […]

Calls Halloween "religious day of significance for Wiccans" which "should be treated respectfully"

WASHINGTON, October 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a letter to the Food and Drug Administration, an official of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) opposed permitting over-the-counter sale of the Plan B “emergency contraception” pill to minors. Mark E. Chopko, USCCB General Counsel, said Plan B “is one instance of a drug in which over-the-counter availability, either generally or to a subpopulation, would be injurious to many-children and adults, as well as health care providers and professionals.” On August 26, the FDA invited public comment on the circumstances under which an active ingredient may be simultaneously marketed in […]

OTTAWA, October 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A majority of Planned Parenthood Canada offices have opted to change their name in a bid to attract new clientele. Twenty of 23 offices nation-wide will now be known as the Canadian Federation for Sexual Health. Offices in Toronto, Ottawa, and Windsor, refused to follow suit. Executive Director Linda Capperauld said the decision was made because of research revealing that the public is largely misinformed about their so-called services. “A lot of young people thought they would only turn to us if they were ready to start having children,” she said, according to a […]

Tax law casts doubt on stem cell royalties; California may not reap billions promised to voters last fallhttps://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/10/25/MNGTFFDK8J1.DTL CWA Official: Rising Crime Among Women Linked to Feminist Agendahttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/272005c.asp PBS Film Unfairly Represents Fatherhoodhttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/272005f.asp Silent Night, Secular Night – Is Christmas verboten?https://www.nationalreview.com/comment/gibson200510270839.asp ‘For sale’ signs hung up on Newfoundland churcheshttps://stjohns.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=nf_church_sale_20051026 Social Worker Charged In Teen Abortion Casehttps://www.wfmynews2.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=50842 Subpoenas out in Katrina euthanasia probehttps://washtimes.com/upi/20051027-064825-7915r.htm Internet Information or Internet Infiltration? https://www.freecongress.org/commentaries/2005/051027.asp Turner’s 1 billion dollar gift to UN also raises a troubling legal issuehttps://www.discoverthenetwork.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5350&category=79 Catholic Parents Question “safe environment” programs; May be doing more harm than good https://www.ncregister.com/articulo2.php?artkod=MTMx Beijing expects “facts” not “words” […]

Excerpts from articles Miers Withdrawal Spawns a New Word  Is “miered” the new “borked”? …if you have a president who is always trying to get consensus, then it’s much more likely that nominees will get ‘miered. On The National Review Online, a conservative site, a contributor suggested that “to mier” means “to put your own allies in the most untenable position possible based upon exceptionally bad decision-making.”https://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBHJN5EBFE.html Discontent among American conservatives is palpableIt is as if the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court blasted open a dam on a rising flood of disappointment on the Right over the […]

HOUSTON, October 27, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An experiment has been underway for a month in a Houston Texas where parents are permitted to ask scientists for a child with the gender of their choice. The procedure involves preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) which is able to detect the sex of embryos created by in vitro fertilization (IVF) prior to their implantation in their mothers’ wombs. While sex selection via PGD has been allowed in some cases where sex-linked diseases are concerned, the clinical trial is seeking to gage the impact of sex selection at the whim of the parents. According to […]

OTTAWA, October 27, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Conservative MP has discovered through documents obtained under Access to Information that Status of Women Canada has been funding anti-Christian bigotry and pro-abortion activism. However, in a startling exchange of correspondence, the Minister responsible for the funding neither offered to pull the funding nor to apologize to Christian Canadians for funding groups which defame them. Writing to Minister of Canadian Heritage and Minister responsible for Status of Women Liza Frulla last month, Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott pointed out that the documents obtained through access to information requests revealed the government granted $27,400 last […]

PORTLAND, October 27, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An attorney who helped a woman successfully sue an abortionist for medical malpractice for failing to warn her about an increased risk of breast cancer has responded to a Rocky Mountain Newsletter to the editor claiming that the abortion-breast cancer link is a “myth.” In his letter to the editor last week, titled Abortion-Breast Cancer ‘Myth’ Wasted on Juries, Jonathan Clark objected to what he described as “spin” on the abortion-breast cancer link. Vicki Cowart, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, claimed “The science is clear: abortion is not a […]

WICHITA, October 27, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Kansas State Representative is pushing for a tax on pornography, citing as reasons the harm that pornography causes, the cost of investigating sex offences and rehabilitation of offenders. Herington, Kansas, Republican Rep. Shari Weber, said the tax is justifiable because of the increase in sex crimes associated with increased access and viewing of pornography. Attorneys representing state sex shops have taken their case to a legislative assembly. Their claim is that there is no connection between viewing pornography and violent sex-related crime. Many experts, including nationally renowned homicide investigator, retired NYPD Lieutenant Commander […]

KOZUCHOW, Poland, October 27, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An illegal abortionist is facing up to eight years in prison after a journalist there, posing as a pregnant woman in a sting operation, was offered an abortion. Regional prosecutors began an investigation after a television documentary aired, revealing a 48-year-old gynaecologist offering a Polish TV 2 woman journalist an abortion, according to a Radio Polonia report. The report did not name the abortionist. Investigators said the doctor claimed innocence. tv

WASHINGTON, October 27, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Harriet Miers has withdrawn her nomination to the Supreme Court Thursday as a result of rapidly growing conservative opposition to her selection. In an official statement today President Bush said he “reluctantly accepted Harriet Miers’ decision to withdraw her nomination.” The withdrawal came on the heels of what the Family Research Council yesterday called “very disturbing” revelations a 1993 speech Miers gave to the Executive Women of Dallas and a call, also yesterday, for the withdrawal of the Miers nomination from Concerned Women for America (CWA). Once the releases from these two influential and […]

LONDON, October 27, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Eight in ten adults in Great Britain regard Britain’s annual count of 200,000 abortions as too many and want ways to be found of reducing that figure, says a new poll conducted by CommunicateResearch on behalf of campaign group Alive & Kicking. A representative sample of 1005 GB adults was polled, by the professional polling company from October 21-23. The findings, published to mark the eve of the Abortion Act’s 38th anniversary yesterday, noted that young people and women were strongest in their support for reduction of the gestational limit of 24 weeks, until […]

LONDON, October 27, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Eight in ten adults in Great Britain regard Britain’s annual count of 200,000 abortions as too many and want ways to be found of reducing that figure, says a new poll conducted by CommunicateResearch on behalf of campaign group Alive & Kicking. A representative sample of 1005 GB adults was polled by the professional polling company from October 21-23. The findings, published to mark the eve of the Abortion Act’s 38th anniversary yesterday, noted that young people and women were strongest in their support for reduction of the gestational limit of 24 weeks, until […]

Homosexual Advocacy Group Cheers Court Decision on Sodomy Case (Corrected Link)https://www.cnsnews.com/Culture/Archive/200510/CUL20051021a.html Echoes of eugenics movement in stem cell debatehttps://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/24/MNG2BFD15I1.DTL&type=science Rome bans goldfish bowlshttps://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0%2C5478%2C17039745%25255E1702%2C00.html Internet Ads direct women with crisis pregnancies to those who can helphttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47040 Liberal 9th Circuit Panel Scoffs at federal “partial birth” Abortion Lawhttps://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1129898333801 In Latin America, the Battle Over Legalizing Abortion Is Heating Uphttps://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-abortion26oct26,0,7608258.story?coll=ny-leadworldnews-headlines Pregnant Woman Who Was Cut Gives Up Babyhttps://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/26/D8DFQM781.html Vote Scorecard for 109th Congress – First Sessionhttps://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=VR05J01 Proposal to funnel all Katrina-related education assistance directly to 372,000 dislocated families, bypassing education bureaucrats.https://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed102505c.cfm Danger in modern “dialogue” format is relativist temptation. Nothing will ever really […]

RICHMOND, Virginia, October 26, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new poll conducted by Virginia Commonwealth University has revealed that support for stem cell research favors sources other than embryonic cells. When asked what they felt would yield the most promising results, 37% said stem cells derived from sources other than human embryos, whereas only 14% said human embryonic sources held the most promise for new medical treatments – a considerably different view than is reflected by most mainstream media coverage. From the report, it can be seen that public understanding of the stem cell research is still unclear. Sixty-seven percent of […]

PARIS, October 26, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Celine Dion, 37, told a French magazine that she plans to have her second child in 2007 after her three-year, $100-million contract with Caesar’s Palace Casino in Las Vegas ends. The child, the product of in-vitro fertilization, already exists and is on ice at a fertility clinic in New York City. “I’m approaching 40 years old, and I have to tend to that,” she told Tele 7 Jours. Another child conceived at the same time was born in 2001. “This frozen embryo that is in New York is my child waiting to be brought […]

BRUSSELS, October 26, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The European Union may try to deny Poland its EU voting status because its newly elected President-elect, Lech Kaczynski, opposes the celebration of homosexuality. The EU is calling Kaczynski’s actions as the mayor of Warsaw, where he banned a “gay pride” parade two years in a row, a potential contravention of article 6 of the Treaty of Nice, which states that countries must protect the rights of minorities. He is also under fire for supporting reintroduction of the death penalty. Under Article 7 of the Treaty, a country that violates human rights – as […]

Whistleblower Beaten Again

Doctors: 'We do not want to become the executioners of our patients.'

STERLING, VA, October 26, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Interstate Batteries and Care Net have teamed up to launch “Charged for Life,” a new fundraising campaign to help support the work of pregnancy centers across the U.S. and Canada. The strategic partnership was kicked off at the NASCAR race in Martinsville, Va. Sunday where the Interstate Batteries car featured Care Net’s name and logo. More than fifty percent of the proceeds from the campaign’s battery sales (AAA, AA, 9-volt, hearing aid batteries, etc.) will go to support the work of Care Net pregnancy centers. Care Net is a faith-based organization that supports […]

Cite radical feminist worldview, penchant for judicial activism, liberal on abortion

Mexican cardinal calls on Catholics to be aware of candidates’ positions on abortion, euthanasia and homosexualityhttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=5246 Are Canadian forces going too far in trying to make military attractive to women?https://www.westernstandard.ca/website/index.cfm?page=article&article_id=1123 Its obvious Canada’s birthrate has dropped far below replacement rate. What’s harder to discern is why. – David Warrenhttps://www.westernstandard.ca/website/index.cfm?page=article&article_id=1116 Polish leader’s anti-gay stance threatens EU voting rights https://www.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,7369,1599957,00.html Canada, U.S. Anglican clerics urged to heal rift over gayshttps://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051025/wl_canada_nm/canada_anglican_gay_rift_col;_ylt=Ar8JKClbnsYNUYK2l6xH83hp9L4F;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl Witches, satanists see an opportunity in new hate billhttps://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C2087-1838578%2C00.html American Girl feels heat of protesthttps://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47015 Southwest Missouri Now Lacks Abortionistshttps://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=21933 Christians need to remember Sudan, crisis continueshttps://www.mnnonline.org/article/7905 Legal Advice to U.S. Schools: […]

Top Bush Supporters Set to Launch Anti-Miers Ad Campaign  A 30-second TV ad is set to air tomorrow, Wednesday, that some believe may be as effective at helping stop the Harriett Miers confirmation as the Swift Boat ads were in helping stop John Kerry. BetterJustice.org, a conservative grass-roots organization, created and funded the hard-hitting anti-Miers (but pro-Bush) ad. The organization’s board of directors includes several otherwise staunch Republican stalwarts, such as David Frum and Linda Chavez.https://humaneventsonline.com.edgesuite.net/ebc_images/BetterJustice.html Dr. James Dobson as a Witness?Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) says he is likely to summon Dr. Dobson to testify before his […]

ROME, October 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The final document from the recently closed bishops’ meeting in Rome, has only a short reference to the issue of reception of communion by pro-abortion politicians, a heated topic of discussion among the bishops in attendance. Comments by some of the bishops coupled with the scant mention is being seen by some as permission for local bishops to carry on with business as usual and continue to ignore the problem, but the final word, that of Pope Benedict XVI, has yet to be heard. Many are expecting that to come from a post-synodal document […]

WASHINGTON, October 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On February 2, 2005, Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) introduced the Right to Life Act of 2005, which, if passed, would amend the U.S. Constitution to provide for the right to life for each born and pre-born human person, according to an Operation Rescue (OR) news release. “This legislation would literally STOP abortion in America – all abortion – because the Constitution would guarantee the right to life for the pre-born,” OR emphasized. The proposed legislation to make abortion illegal has been introduced to Congress by Hunter every year since 1997 after he agreed to […]

CALGARY, October 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Lethbridge, Alberta man who beat his pregnant ex-girlfriend in order to induce an abortion is going to jail. The Alberta Court of Appeal ruled yesterday that Patrick William Coulthard’s earlier conditional sentence was not severe enough for the assault which was initiated because the woman refused to abort their child. “She was pregnant with his child and refused to have an abortion,” Justice Bryan Mahoney stated in his decision, according to a Sun Media report. “The attack caused great risk to the victim and child.” The woman was jumped from behind by the […]

HUNTINGTON, Conn., October 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Stephen Bennett, the famous former homosexual, now happily married to wife Irene and proud father of two children, has made it his mission to spread the hope of change for men and women struggling against homosexual inclinations. In an interview with LifeSiteNews.com yesterday, Bennet explained his latest venture to reach out to Canada with his message. Bennett’s US national radio program “Straight Talk Radio”, which is to launch October 31 will broadcast in Canada via internet streaming radio. Because of Canadian broadcast restrictions, Straight Talk Radio will provide a 1” square icon and […]

GDP Growth to Experience Major Slowdown in Next Decade, Group Warns

The Promise of Narnia: Will They Get it Right?https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/242005b.asp Reproductive Technologies Out of Control and Harming Children  Good Work, Bishop Wiegandhttps://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=1&art_id=30505 Family institute in Colombia refutes statistics on abortion https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=5232 Missouri Stem-Cell Initiative Permits All Cloninghttps://www.cwfa.org/articles/9235/CWA/life/index.htm Will This Catholic Senator Be the Next President? An Ignatius Insight Interview with Senator Sam Brownback https://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2005/vs_senbrownback_oct05.asp Sex Trafficking Goes Primetime – Chuck Colsonhttps://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/chuckcolson/2005/10/24/172641.html Sex and schoolkidshttps://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/jeffjacoby/2005/10/24/172497.html ‘Satanism flourishing in Russia’https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47000 Bearded Mel goes Mayanhttps://www.canadafreepress.com/ Calls to limit population growth in the Philippines are misguided, says a leading economist – Big families are the ultimate resource. https://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=171 Obliterating this country’s long storied history is […]

Insiders see hint of Miers pulloutThe White House has begun making contingency plans for the withdrawal of Harriet Miers as President Bush’s choice to fill a seat on the Supreme Court, conservative sources said yesterday. “White House senior staff are starting to ask outside people, saying, ‘We’re not discussing pulling out her nomination, but if we were to, do you have any advice as to how we should do it?’ ” a conservative Republican with ties to the White House told The Washington Times. https://washingtontimes.com/national/20051021-112953-8355r.htm What Went Wrong: Lessons the White House should learn from the Miers debacle – John […]

WARSAW, October 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Lech Kaczynski, who as the mayor of Warsaw banned “gay pride” parades two years in a row, was elected as the country’s president yesterday. Kaczynski, leader of the conservative Law and Justice Party (PiS), earned 54.5 percent of the vote to defeat fellow presidential contender Donald Tusk of the free market Civic Platform (PO), who won 45.5 percent. The two parties will form a centre-right cabinet in the coming week. The conservative win in the country’s general election last month unseated a socialist-led government that has been in power since the fall of communism […]

HOUSTON, Texas, October 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In her new book, Sex Appealed, a Texas judge documents why she concludes that a landmark 2003 US Supreme Court decision striking down anti sodomy laws was based on pre arranged arrests staged to test the constitutionality of Texas’ law. The non fiction book, her first, is subtitled Was the U.S. Supreme Court Fooled? The controversial 6-3 U.S. Supreme Court ruling favoring the defendants in the landmark case is the trigger event kicking away roadblocks to gay marriage. Lawrence v. Texas remains in headlines today in a larger cultural war over adoption, employee […]

ANN ARBOR, MI, October 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Thomas More Law Center has submitted a friend of the court brief with the Supreme Court of the United States supporting Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s efforts to uphold the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in Nebraska had previously found the Act to be unconstitutional. The Act bans the abortion procedure where an unborn baby, generally twenty weeks or longer in gestation, is removed alive from her mother’s womb, except for the head. The doctor punctures the child’s head, sucks out […]

BOSTON, October 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Boston Globe reported Saturday that the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston has assisted in the adoption of 13 children by homosexual partners in the last twenty years out of a total of 720 children adopted. Archdiocesan spokesman, Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, said that state regulations prohibit the agency from discriminating based on “sexual orientation.” “We have to balance various goods,” said Fr. Hehir. He said if they did not comply with the state’s nondiscrimination clause, the Catholic agency would not be able to do the work of placing other foster children into good homes. […]

Stripper group still advertises 200 positions for interested Romanians to come to Canada

GATINEAU, Quebec, October 24, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The dignity of any country’s leadership is seen to rest upon how they comport themselves both in Parliament and out. A Parliamentary Press Gallery dinner was held Saturday, October 22 at the Museum of Civilization in Gatinueau which saw members of government past and present make verbal, and at time expletive, assaults at each other. A video of former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney was shown in which he used expletives towards Peter Newman, author of a recent book on Mr. Mulroney. The new Governor General of Canada, Michelle Jean, told the audience that […]

TORONTO, October 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Vision TV, a television network heavily supported by Canada’s National Catholic Broadcasting Corporation, has been targeting Catholicism, especially the Church’s teachings on homosexuality, with a harshness surprising even for liberal Canada. Vision, which bills itself as “Canada’s multi-faith and multicultural broadcaster,” gained a large audience for its leading 360 Vision show last Thursday night by promoting that it would feature a Catholic priest who would become the first in the country to “come out” as homosexual on television. Sure enough the producers of the program trotted out one Fr. Karl Clemens, a 63-year-old priest […]

Authors Say Emotional Healing After Abortion Will Increase Likelihood of "Violence Free" Families

U.S. Senate Panel Passes Sex Offender Bill Without ‘Hate Crimes’ Language. Sen. Kennedy might introduce the “hate crimes” amendment when bill comes to the Senate floorÂÂÂÂhttps://www.cwfa.org/articles/9229/CFI/family/index.htm Liberal lead over Tories is five percentage points, suggests Decima pollhttps://www.canada.com/news/national/story.html?id=97fbbd9e-a47e-4a61-8303-22c1aa9230a6 Americans Still Idealize the Traditional Familyhttps://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week908/survey.html An Open Letter Regarding the Current Hate Crimes Amendmenthttps://www.robgagnon.net/HateCrimesAmendment.htm 25 Threats to Freedom If “Hate Crimes” and “Sexual Orientation” Are Added to U.S. Lawhttps://www.realwomenca.com/newsletter/2004_jan_feb/article_3.html Keep ban of homosexual candidates to the priesthood, says pastor https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=5217 Statistics on abortion in Colombia exaggerated https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=5222 Hurricane postpones another homosexual partyhttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46960 Franken’s liberal network, Air America, has no measurable audiencehttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46954 Chinese […]

Contrary to reports, Harriet Miers was not raised as a Catholichttps://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0506006.htm Conservatives who oppose a youth organization that supports abortion rights and acceptance of lesbians said Friday that Harriet Miers’ service with the Dallas chapter in 1987 had no bearing on her Supreme Court nomination. https://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-scotus/2005/oct/21/102108137.html Miers to end her visits with senatorshttps://www.washtimes.com/national/20051020-083137-7609r.htm Richard John Neuhaus writes:  I’ve been saying that Harriet Miers will not withdraw or be withdrawn, and will likely be confirmed, leaving us with no alternative to hoping for the best. Now I’m not so sure she will be confirmed. Facing the likely prospect of defeat in […]

LONDON, Ontario, October 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new website has been launched by the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition to stop bill C-407, the bill in Canadian parliament to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide.  stopbillc-407.com contains information about the bill, assessments of the bill, media articles, and information about euthanasia and assisted suicide.  The website is currently online in a semi-complete fashion.  The first hour of debate for Bill C-407 is scheduled on October 31, 2005. The second hour of debate is tentatively scheduled for the last week of November or the first week of December. The vote at second reading […]

WASHINGTON, October 21, 2005 (c-Fam.org/LifeSiteNews.com) – The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) received a sharp rebuke from the US House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform following revelations that USAID funded an Indian organization that fought efforts to free teenage prostitutes from brothels. In May, Restore International, an anti-trafficking non-governmental organization (NGO) in India that works to stop underage prostitution, performed a raid that resulted in the rescue of 35 girls from an Indian brothel. A Bush Administration official told the Friday Fax that while Indian law allows legal prostitution, it is forbidden for girls under the age […]

CONCORD, Massachusetts, October 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A local district attorney has decided not to pursue trespassing charges against David Parker as a result of an incident at his son’s school. Parker spent a night in jail in April for refusing to leave a meeting because his 6-year-old son’s teacher and director of education refused to assure the father that he would be notified when issues of homosexuality and transgenderism were to be discussed. Middlesex County District Attorney Martha Coakley informed the court this morning that her office has decided not to pursue the criminal trespassing charge against the Lexington […]

TORONTO, October 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Canadian university fundraiser to help Katrina survivors in New Orleans featured a “Bush-bashing” video about the evacuation of New Orleans. An anonymous attendee at Thursday’s Ryerson University Student Union fundraiser described the video as “a Bush-bashing video intended to incite hatred against the man.” The observer described, “In part of the video, a black man who is being interviewed says ‘they sent them [US Army and other security personnel] in to shoot at us [blacks] ….Bush doesn’t care about black people…’” “The rest of the video was a clear example of dishonest and […]

VANCOUVER, October 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After admitting to thieving a $64,000 ring last year but let off without conviction, former New Democratic Party MP Svend Robinson announced today that he will run again for the NDP for the Vancouver Centre seat – currently held by Hedy Fry – in the next federal election. “I’m asking for a second chance,” he said at a news conference, as reported by the Canadian Press. “I should be judged for my entire record of hard work.” The self-described homosexual said he was eager to get back to issues dear to him like fighting […]

SAN FRANCISCO, California, October 21, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com)—- Last year, on Monday, March 29, three separate lawsuits were launched against the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act signed into law on November 5, 2003. The judges in New York, Nebraska and California ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, stating that the ban was unconstitutional. The Bush administration yesterday urged a California federal appeals court to overturn the decision in that state. The procedure in question is carried out in the second trimester where the living fetus is partially removed from the womb, and its skull is punctured or crushed. The Government is arguing […]

BLACKPOOL, October 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Britain’s beleaguered Conservatives are holding their leadership conference in Blackpool this week and early reports are pointing to overwhelming support for the youngest candidate, David Cameron, MP for Witney in West Oxfordshire. The Australian called Cameron a “Tory Blair,” and he is looking like the British Conservative Party’s best hope for electoral success in the next election. The subtitle of Irwin M. Stelzer’s article in this week’s edition of the Weekly Standard –“Tories Meet to Select Labour’s Next Victim”– highlights the larger problem for the British Tories that is similar to that of their […]

TORONTO, October 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A vigorous effort is being made to expel Queen’s Park correspondent and pro-life Interim newspaper columnist Frank Kennedy from the Queen’s Park Press Gallery for holding and actively expressing his point of view. A 15-year member of the Q.P. Press Gallery, Kennedy, a popular and well-liked part-time member of the gallery was brought in last Friday for a closed-door session with the Q.P. Press Gallery executive for what they considered his `advocacy’ and aggressive promotion of the pro-life cause. Gallery president Alan Findlay, told Kennedy that the executive could not dismiss a member outright […]

Study says churchgoers are wealthier, less likely to divorce, better educatedhttps://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/local/sfl-ybsternspot17oct17%2C0%2C1052438.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines&track=mostemailedlink Pre-natal testing: weeding out society’s undesirables? https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=5203 Author Hopes Book Will Dispel ‘Harmless Fun’ Myths About Pornhttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/202005c.asp Time Magazine Summit to Tackle Global Health Challenges with Focus on  Faith-Based Effortshttps://www.christianpost.com/article/society/1919/section/time.magazine.summit.to.tackle.global.health.challenges.with.focus.on.faith-based.efforts/1.htm New group to protect freedom of religion staging unusual campaign to get atheism recognized as a religion. Its symbol? Nothing.https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=5190 Could the Toronto Star be up to its old Liberal-saving tricks?https://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/comment/blog/gunter.html?post=1892 American visits to Canada at 25-year low – Have U.S. citizens finally had it with Canadian anti-Americanism?https://www.cbc.ca/story/business/national/2005/10/19/travel-051019.html Court sides with 5-year-old after school censors Jesushttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46920 No more “Christ” […]

CHURCHILL, Manitoba, October 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Winnipeg New Democratic Party MP Bev Desjarlais quit the New Democratic party Tuesday to sit as an independent after being ousted from the NDP for being the only member of her caucus to vote against same-sex “marriage.” NDP leader Jack Layton supported a candidate who defeated Desjarlais’ for the nomination in anticipation of the next federal election – 24-year-old Niki Ashton, a recent university graduate. Desjarlais announced her decision to sit as an independent after losing the nomination. “I’m comfortable with where it has ended up,” Desjarlais said, according to a CanWest News […]

TOPEKA, Kansas, October 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline’s continuing investigation into child rape has led to the Kansas Supreme Court, where a decision is expected soon on whether to allow the release of 90 files from late-term abortionists. In February, Kline had subpoenaed the files from the Comprehensive Health clinic in Overland Park and George Tiller’s Women’s Health Care clinic in Wichita. The purpose was to investigate the clinics for alleged cover-ups of rape committed against girls less than 16 years of age who had been impregnated by older men. On Tuesday, Kline’s office held a […]

CHARLESTON, S.C., October 20, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston has officially pulled its support for a fundraiser after learning the recipient organization gives money to the United States’ largest abortion agency. The Diocese, along with Bishop England High School, was to have been involved with the Race for the Cure, a fundraising event that attracts 6,000 participants and benefits the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Research Foundation. It was later discovered that the foundation financially supports Planned Parenthood in other cities Though some students from Bishop England school will participate they will not receive community service […]

Publicity about happy family with 16 children sends California liberal over deep end

NEW YORK, October 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A report released Tuesday reveals that UN peacekeepers involved in overseas missions often cover up instances of sexual exploitation, abuse, and rape by fellow soldiers in what the report calls a “boys will be boys” attitude. “A ‘boys will be boys’ attitude in peacekeeping missions breeds tolerance for exploiting and abusing local women,” wrote Sarah Martin, author of the report titled, Must Boys Be Boys? Ending Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in UN Peacekeeping Missions. “This attitude is slowly changing, but the UN must go beyond rhetoric and ensure that the resources needed to […]

PITTSBURGH, October 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An ex-funeral director is facing charges for corpse abuse for failing to incinerate the corpses of 19 dead babies. Authorities, however, found the corpses of more than 300 babies, but because the remaining babies were either aborted, miscarried or stillborn, they are not considered persons. Charges were laid only for those infants who were born alive but died shortly thereafter. Robert B. Winston Jr., 61, had a contract with Magee-Womens Hospital to cremate the remains at a rate of $1 per pound. The man’s lawyer said he failed to cremate the bodies, which were […]

SHANGHAI, October 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Shanghai police are investigating a scheme to sell newborn babies on Chinese eBay. The popular auction site is cooperating with police but it is unclear if the offer to sell babies was a hoax and the webpage, registered to a user called “Forever Innovator,” has been removed. Lion Tang, a public relations official from eBay’s Shanghai office, said “Ebay carries a strict supervision process over the goods sold online to prevent trading of illegal articles.” The bids started at US$3,457 and just under half that for a girl. The Chinese communist government’s population control […]

MUMBAI, October 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Indian stem cell researchers are frustrated by their inability to create stem cell lines from frozen IVF embryos and are calling for relaxation of the rules to allow them to create embryonic humans explicitly for research. More researchers who try to obtain stem cells from frozen embryos are complaining that the procedure of thawing so damages the embryo that no cells can be obtained. “Some embryos get destroyed during thawing. Some don’t make it to the blastocyst stage. And some don’t produce stem cells,” said fertility specialist Deepa Bhartiya. “This restriction of using only […]

TORONTO, October 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Vision Television, a Canadian television station, that claims openness to religions, is set to air a program in which a Catholic priest is to “come out” as homosexual. A press release for the upcoming program is entitled, “360 Vision Exclusive: a gay Catholic priest comes out.” The release states, “On Thursday, Oct. 20 at 10 p.m. ET , VisionTV ‘s signature current affairs series 360 Vision presents a special report on the renewed debate over gays in the Catholic priesthood – and elicits a startling revelation from one priest. Defying the Vatican, he declares […]

OTTAWA, October 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - US newspapers and investigative journalists have been frustrated in their attempts to receive comment from Canadian government officials regarding the death of two American young men brought into Canada under the controversial ‘exotic dancer’ program. Weeks prior to their deaths this summer, European anti-trafficking groups and the US body which compiles international data on trafficking in persons criticized Canada for the controversial scheme which, according to anti-trafficking groups is fraught with abuse and often leads to involuntary prostitution. US officials called the program Canada’s “only black spot” regarding trafficking in persons. The bodies of […]

PETERBOROUGH, ON, October 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Catholic priest who made public comments regarding his support for a group of womenÂpretending Catholic ordination to the priesthood, has been relieved of his duties as a priest after refusing to recommit to church teaching on the matter. LifeSiteNews.com reported in August (https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/aug/05081106.html ) that Fr. Edward Cachia gave an interview to a local paper in which he praised the women’s controversial “ordination” that tookÂplace this past July on a boat on the St. Lawrence river. In a press release yesterday from the chancery office of Peterborough Bishop Nicola De Angelis, the […]

Miers Says She’ll Give Senators More Info  Miers said she would try to give more information about herself to senators in charge of her confirmation after one said what she has submitted so far was “incomplete to insulting.” Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said Miers has taken “the most extreme position of anyone I have ever known on abortion, assuming she believes that there ought to be a constitutional ban on abortion which would make it a crime except if a woman’s life is at stake.”https://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/20/D8DBPSI00.html How Bush Can Save Bush – Peggy Noonan  The White House itself can be a […]

October 19, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. President Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers for the Surpeme Court has become one of the most controversial and confusing actions by the president since he first won the presidency. Is Miers the right choice for the position? Well, that depends on which of the many conservative voices one listens to. Arguments are compelling on both sides, although at the moment the movement to have Bush start over with another choice seems to have gained the upper hand. One thing is certain. The selection of not just this Supreme Court replacement but also the next […]

Intelligent Design expert testifies, proof of creator is observable in nature https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=5191 Archbishop Chaput clarifies Church’s stance on death penalty, says in industrialized societies, it must end https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=5192 Man Claims Abuse Led to Homosexuality https://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0038295.cfm Ex-Funeral Director Charged With Abusing Corpses of 19 Babies Found in Pa. Garagehttps://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBPPDO50FE.html Alberta donates $5 million to Clinton hurricane fundhttps://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/10/19/clinton_klein051019.html Protecting the Rite of Abortionhttps://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WU05J13&f=PG03I03 U.S. Bishops’ New Fighterhttps://www.ncregister.com/articulo2.php?artkod=MTI4 Bono Discusses the World’s Poor With Bush https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051019/ap_en_ce/bush_bono;_ylt=AmxSJQ4yvvfB.UIrawPOEbWs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ Parents Group Warns Against 4 Fox Showshttps://apnews.myway.com/article/20051019/D8DBAOF03.html A new Chinese bishop consecrated with Vatican approvalhttps://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=4404 Thoughts about the national role of Catholicshttps://catholicinsight.com/online/editorials/article_628.shtml Book review: The Hidden Pierre […]

TORONTO, October 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Even in the fifth decade of their Trudeau-inspired national identity crisis, the one thing that Canadians, particularly Torontonians, can agree upon is their hatred for America, particularly for the traditional Christian values espoused by its current president, George W. Bush. Canadian anti-Americanism is, paradoxically, perhaps best expressed in its adulation for one of the US’s most infamously unscrupulous and immoral leaders, former president William Jefferson Clinton. Clinton gave a day-long motivational seminar, called The Power Within, to 5,000 paying listeners in Toronto yesterday while scooping up his usual average $160,000 fee for the event. […]

Findings prompt calls for more "search-and-destroy" eugenic screening

STRASBOURG, October 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The European Union’s Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a resolution earlier this month titled Women and Religion in Europe, which recommends that countries “ensure that women are not subjected to religiously inspired policies and laws [such as] abortion law[s].” Maintaining laws that protect the most innocent and helpless members of society – the unborn – in contrast to a so-called woman’s right to choose to kill their unborn children, PACE maintains, is a form of “intolerance and discrimination” aimed at women by what they decry as male-dominated religion – an […]

WASHINGTON, DC, October 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Christian Medical Association, theÂlargest association of faith-based physicians in the U.S., today critiqued two recently reported developments in embryonic stem cell research that are purportedly designed to allay ethical concerns over treatment of human life. Both methods were reported in the October 17 online edition of Nature. While applauding the search for ethical alternatives, the association’s leaders say the procedures do not circumvent the moral dilemmas of destroying living human beings or exposing them to harm. One procedure involves programming an embryo genetically so that it cannot successfully implant and develop in […]

Blocked Internet Discussion of New Pope

MALAGA, Spain, October 19, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Some members of the Spanish Association of Catholic Pharmacists, citing “conscientious objection,” have refused to sell condoms at their pharmacies in spite of intense pressure. Alicia Cueto, secretary general of the Anti-AIDS Association of Malaga, states that the position taken by these pharmacists is a “very grave problem”. However, a spokesperson for the College of Pharmacology in Malaga said that the pharmacists in question are well within their rights. In a local paper the pharmacists say their decision rests on the belief that selling condoms “involves a clear incitement to murder” since it […]

A gathering storm over Miers – Frumhttps://frum.nationalreview.com/ The Conservative Machine’s Unexpected Turnhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/17/AR2005101701724.html Miers Backed Ban on Most Abortions in ‘89https://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/18/D8DAJOQO1.html Canada’s reputation loses some lustrehttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051018.wxtransparency18/BNStory/National/ Liberal scandals ‘systemic’: Adscam tip of iceberg, think-tank sayshttps://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2005/10/18/1266973-sun.html Pro-Marriage NDP MP Bouncedhttps://www.winnipegsun.com/News/Canada/2005/10/18/1267035-sun.html Canada unhealthy, violent: Reporthttps://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2005/10/18/1266975-sun.html Louisiana Looks Into 215 Katrina Deaths as Possible Neglect, Euthanasiahttps://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20051017071309990036 How ‘Gay Rights’ Are Being Sold to the Populationhttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46884 Beaten Christian Businessman Revenged by Chinese Authorityhttps://www.earnedmedia.org/caa1017.htm Poll: Half of conservative Christians favor embryonic researchhttps://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=21863 New Report Criticizes China over Continuing Human Rights, Religious Freedom  Violationshttps://www.christianpost.com/article/asia/793/section/new.report.criticizes.china.over.continuing.human.rights.religious.freedom.violations/1.htm Bolton Testifies That He’s Working to Convince Countries of Needed U.N. Overhaulhttps://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBWHD7JYEE.html Group […]

TORONTO, October 18, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As reported previously by LifeSiteNews.com, the Toronto Star published an Oct. 11 article by regular columnist Joey Slinger which slammed the Catholic Church’s right to discipline its members and called for seizure of the property of Catholic institutions. Today’s Star carries a rebuttal in which the president of the Catholic Civil Rights League supports the assertion of Calgary’s Bishop Fred Henry that Prime Minister Paul Martin has indeed automatically excommunicated himself. Philip Horgan, President of the Catholic Civil Rights League, responds, “The situation of a Catholic politician is no different fundamentally than that of […]

WORCESTER, October 18, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) -Â The mainstream media (MSM) is alive with reports that another embryo researcher has “solved” the ethical problem of using embryos to obtain stem cells. But the announcement is little more than further proof that there is almost no understanding of the pro-life objections to the proceedures on the part of the research community. This time the news comes from researchers at the private Massachusetts-based biotech firm Advanced Cell Technology who say that the removal of single cells from an early-stage embryo can be accomplished without always killing the emrbyo. The method, published on-line this […]

LONDON, October 18, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the nineteenth century, hucksters in the US made fortunes selling snake oil to a gullible populace. Now the hucksters are at it again, this time cashing in on the hype surrounding the media’s representation of embryonic stem cells as the cure-all of the future. The Independent Online reports that some Britons are going to Barbados, Ecuador, Russia and Ukraine to receive injections of stem cells from aborted foetuses into their skin to restore a youthful appearance. Dozens of British women have paid as much as ₤15,000 for the “treatment” despite warnings from British […]

QUITO, Ecuador, October 18, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com)—- Medical laboratories and government health officials who distribute the morning after pill have been named in a lawsuit brought against them by various pro-life groups in Ecuador. Last year the Ecuadorian Ministry of Health ordered the removal of abortifacient “morning-after” pills from pharmacies on the grounds of a “prescribed fault” in its pricing. The decision came while pro-life leaders in the tiny South American country were working to have the pill banned completely. At the time of the decision, Director of Health of the coastal province of the Guayas, Robert Blum, had said that […]

SALEM, Oregon, October 18, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com)—- Oregon is becoming an increasingly confusing state with the decision last month to remove restrictions prohibiting “live sex shows” and close contact by nude dancers. The state also allows “assisted suicide” and has the most lenient drug laws in the nation. But then on the conservative side it has introduced a constitutional amendment prohibiting same sex marriages and has outlawed smoking. Oregon also prohibits pumping your own gas. Regarding the latest rulings the Oregon Supreme Court, in a pair of 5-1 decisions, has declared restrictions limiting nude dancers a violation of the state Constitution’s […]

Social Development Minister Ken Dryden implies daycare superior to parents looking after own children

OTTAWA, October 18, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) has sent a letter to all Members of Parliament and the Senate opposing Bill C-407 which seeks to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia. The letter, dated October 11 and signed by CCCB General Secretary Mario Paquette says that “the Catholic Bishops of Canada are firmly opposed to Bill C-407, and are urging the Government of Canada, all members of Parliament and all Catholics to reject,” the bill. “Legalizing assisted suicide and euthanasia,” says the letter, “would justify the most extreme human abuse possible, namely the killing of […]

TORONTO, October 18, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – When the Couchiching Institute announced its 2005 Award for Public Policy Leadership was going to controversial Canadian abortionist Henry Morgentaler, they identified the Sun Life Financial company asÂa financial backer of the award. However, Sun Life Financial, has clarified the issue noting they did not sponsor the award. After receiving complaints from LifeSiteNews.com readers Sun Life contacted LifeSiteNews.com to clarify that while Sun Life sponsors the Couchiching Institute they did not, nor would they have sponsored the award for Morgentaler. Thomas Reid, Vice-President, Public and Investor Relations Sun Life Financial Inc., in an interview […]

VISTA, California, October 18, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A California lesbian is suing the doctors who refused to artificially inseminate her, charging that she was discriminated against because of the doctor’s religious beliefs. Guadalupe “Lupita” Benitez, 33, is suing Doctors Christine Brody and Douglas Fenton and their North Coast Women’s Care Medical Group in Southern California for the alleged violation of her civil rights, after they refused her the procedure in 2000. The doctors said they were not comfortable with assisting her to become a parent because she was not married. Benitez said she finally conceived with the collusion of another […]

SACRAMENTO, October 18, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Catholic schoolteacher has been fired for volunteering at a Planned Parenthood abortuary.  Marie Bain, a drama teacher at the all-girls Loretto High School was dismissed by local Bishop William Wiegand after a parent brought him a picture showing Bain ushering young women into the abortuary, past pro-life protesters outside.  Planned Parenthood said Bain volunteered weekly to abet the women in obtaining the abortions. “She would wear a planned parenthood vest, just really welcome them in,” said Planned Parenthood spokesman Katharyn McLearan, according to a Fox40 Morning News report.  Bishop Wiegand’s directive affirmed that […]

AUCKLAND, October 18, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life groups are roundly criticizing Auckland University scientists who are conducting research on eyes obtained from babies aborted in the US. New Zealand’s Investigate magazine uncovered what it describes as “Auschwitz-style” experiments on aborted children at the university. Investigate reveals the university has been importing slices of aborted fetuses into New Zealand from America for the past 18 months, in what’s believed to be the first research of its kind in New Zealand. The University said it approved the research led by Dr Keely Bumsted O’Brien, from the Optometry Department, on the basis of […]

Children of Divorce – New Study Explores the Nasty Effectshttps://zenit.org/english/show_3.php New Club at Princeton Promotes Chastity https://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5340887,00.html ‘Roe’ of Roe vs. Wade addresses pro-life event for L.A. Hispanicshttps://www.catholic.org/cathcom/national_story.php?id=17164 Poll suggests government corruption now ranks with health care as the No. 1 concern among Canadian votershttps://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=197fd8f5-507c-4776-b8de-f0bc2872479f NDP may topple Canada’s Liberals in time for Christmas votehttps://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2005/10/17/1265462-sun.html Washington is abuzz with rumors and projections that the Democrats are heading back to power. https://www.freecongress.org/ Did Christian conservatives receive assurances that Miers would oppose Roe v. Wade? https://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110007415 The White House is back with a new strategy for its embattled high-court choice.https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9711531/site/newsweek/ There’s a […]

OTTAWA, October 17, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Wednesday, October 19, 2005 the CIHR (Canadian Institutes for Health Research) will celebrate its fifth anniversary and they are inviting Parliamentarians to join them in “an unique event…that celebrates the way Canada is innovating in health research.” Campaign Life Coalition will be present on Parliament Hill during the event on October 19th from 2:00p.m. until 5:00p.m. to publicly demonstrate its objection to the work of the CIHR in the field of embryo research and to urge the government to draft Parliamentary guidelines for the organization in order to protect human embryos. “Unfortunately, Canada […]

OTTAWA, October 17, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-abortion groups in Canada are taking a page from their American counterparts, attempting to repackage their image so as to become relevant to the younger generation of Canadians that has largely ignored them leaving a tired, old leadership without many prospects to fill their shoes. In the US last year, the National Abortion Rights Action League renamed itself NARAL Pro-Choice America. In Canada, the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League (CARAL) officially closed its doors only to reopen under the name The Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada (ARCC). In a press release today, ARCC admits […]

LAKELAND, Florida, October 17, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A homosexual man has been charged with arson and insurance fraud after setting fire to a home that both he and his homosexual lover lived in. Christopher Michael Robertson, 23, made the arson appear to be a hate crime, by spray painting “die fag” on the home’s steps before setting the building ablaze. The derogation was an apparent attempt to scare the man’s homosexual partner, Paul Day, away. tv

WASHINGTON, October 17, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Kansas Senator Sam Brownback is hoping that resurgence in faith and traditional values among US voters will work in his favour in a bid for the 2008 Republican nomination for president. Brownback first campaigned for the US Congress in 1994, but as a “very different candidate,” according to a New York Times report. “In a contested Republican primary, he was generally considered the candidate friendlier to abortion rights because he did not oppose abortions in cases of rape or incest or to protect the life of the pregnant woman,” explained NYT columnist David D. […]

YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territory, October 17, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two homosexuals who challenged the Northwest Territory law that made their same-sex “marriage” illegal have been awarded $5,000 in legal fees to cover court costs by an activist judge there. Supreme Court Justice Virginia Schuler ordered the federal government, and therefore Canadian taxpayers, to reimburse Jason Perrino and Colin Snow for costs they incurred during their legal challenge. The two “married” there illegally in 2003. tv

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US Supreme Court confirmed a lower court order granting a Missouri prisoner access to an abortion, despite a law that forbids state funds from being used to pay for the procedure. The Supreme Court decision was published without comment Justice Clarence Thomas, acting alone, temporarily stayed the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals order Friday. Today theÂcourt ruled to grant the woman’s request, despite the opposition of Missouri’s governor and attorney general. The unidentified woman, now at Vandalia women’s prison, who was arrested in California for parole violation, claimed she would have aborted the […]

EDMONTON, October 17, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last week, Synthia Kavanagh, a 43 year-old man previously known as Richard Chaperon and who is officially considered a woman, in a fit of rage trashed the medium/minimum security women’s prison in Edmonton in which he was housed. He fought off guards and threatened the lives of others. He is being transferred to a maximum security facility in Kitchener, Ontario but the policies that put him in a position to be a danger to women prisoners and guards is being questioned only by a Conservative MP. It all started in 1999 when Kavanagh convinced […]

TORONTO, October 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A “plastinated” cadaver, holding its own skin in one hand as though holding a trench coat adorns the front page of Dr. Gunther von Hagens website. Another flayed body is depicted suspended in mid-air as though leaping over a track and field hurdle. A skinless cadaver with most of its musculature semi-attached, posed as though running for a bus; a flayed and partially dissected pregnant woman; skinless dead foetuses; a flayed “teacher” with book and chalk in hand; all are part of Dr. von Hagen’s “anatomy art” exhibit, Body Worlds, that he says received […]

OTTAWA, October 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An internal memo sent to Liberal MPs yesterday from Justice Minister Irwin Cotler notes that he does not support Bill C-407, a bill which seeks to legalize assisted suicide in Canada. The memo was leaked to the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) which provided a copy to LifeSiteNews.com. The Cotler memo presents three main arguments against the bill. First, it says that the “Bill has far-reaching implications in the manner in which it alters the current state of the law and in the way it will impact on medical ethics and practice.” Commenting on the […]

UNITED NATIONS, October 13, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations’ envoy to Africa, Canadian Stephen Lewis, is highly critical of an abstinence campaign that has downplayed the role of condoms but been hugely successful at reducing HIV transmission in Uganda. Population Researcher Institute’s Joseph A. D’Agostino suggests that the success in combating AIDS in Uganda “isn’t good enough for UN officials, whose love affair with condoms knows no bounds, and who are also angry with America for funding her own AIDS initiative in Africa instead of giving the money to them.” Uganda, whose abstinence campaign has been so successful as […]

VATICAN, October 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One of the leading English-language Vatican correspondents, John Allen of National Catholic Reporter, has noted that Pope Benedict has used “apocalyptic” language. In his October 3 column, Allen covers the homily given by the Pope at the opening mass of the synod of bishops.“Speaking in somewhat apocalyptic tones,” wrote Allen, “the pope warned: ‘The judgment announced by the Lord Jesus referred above all to the destruction of Jerusalem in the year 70. But the threat of judgment also regards us, the church of Europe, Europe and the West in general.’” (see Allen’s piece here […]

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, October 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A judge has ruled that Planned Parenthood is guilty of breaking state law for committing an abortion on a 17-year-old minor without her parents’ knowledge. Ramsey County District Judge David Higgs ruled a Planned Parenthood abortuary was guilty of contravening the Minnesota notification law, which requires abortionists to inform a minor’s parents before committing an abortion. Planned Parenthood committed the abortion December 26, 2002. The girl’s parents launched the suit in May. Planned Parenthood argued the girl, a high school senior, was legally an adult because she already has a child. “Clearly […]

The crying gamehttps://www.liquidlewis.com/barb/archive/20051012crygame.htm India’s baby girls decimated through infanticide or abortionhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200510/s1481864.htm Australian Govt to discuss abortion pill, says PMhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200510/s1481864.htm Premature baby who survived mother’s murder dieshttps://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/manhattan/nyc-baby1013,0,1233795.story?coll=nyc-manheadlines-manhattan Men Waiting Too Long to Marry, Says Censushttps://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/10/13/90802.shtml Vatican Starts Excorcism Classeshttps://www.wtkr.com/Global/story.asp?S=3974809 Miers Nomination – Is there a way out for the White House? Yes – Peggy Noonanhttps://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/ Harriet Miers’s nomination resulted from a failed vetting processhttps://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110007398 Hidden testimony re-ignites Miers fireshttps://www.drudgereport.com/flash4hmn.htm Coren on Paul Martin and Communionhttps://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Coren_Michael/2005/10/08/1253268.html Canadian Taxpayers Forced to Fund Sex Gadgets for Prisonershttps://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Edmonton/2005/10/13/1260447-sun.html English Churches Nearing Last Rites: Careyhttps://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/12/nchur12.xml Christian Coalition falls on lean dayshttps://washtimes.com/national/20051013-121940-9083r.htm Decision on Plan B Called […]

TORONTO, October 13, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday, the United Nations Population Fund released its annual report “State of the World Population 2005.” The Canadian launch of the report was held at a press conference in Toronto at the behest of the pro-abortion group Action Canada for Population and Development (ACPD). The UN group’s annual report has become dry with the constantly regurgitated mantra of endorsing abortion and abortifacients under the guise of sexual and reproductive health and rights. However far more interesting than the report were the comments of the UNFPA personality sent to headline the document’s Canadian launch. Yves […]

Speaker says there is need for "formula giving the lay faithful basic doctrinal, ethical and moral formation"

LONDON, October 13, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Media icon and pop star Madonna said she does not allow her children to watch television because “TV is trash.” “My kids don’t watch TV,” she said. “We have televisions but they’re not hooked up to anything but movies.” An unlikely moralizer on matters of media – Madonna is famous forÂquite “trashy” performances and productions, including an explicit pornographic book, Sex, published in 1992 – Madonna has obvious sense when it comes to what her children should be exposed to. “TV is trash,” she added, according to a This is London report. “I was […]

NEW ORLEANS, October 13, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A September 12 LifeSiteNews.com story https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/sep/05091205.html related the first hand account of an anonymous doctor who, anxious that help would not arrive in time for several critically ill patients at New Orleans Memorial Medical Center, decided to euthanize them instead. Another doctor has come forward to corroborate the admission. Dr. Bryant King was also at Memorial during and after the hurricane. He told CNN news that, despite not actually witnessing the acts of euthanasia, “most people know something happened that shouldn’t have happened.” Prior to the hurricane, 11 people had died and been […]

CALGARY, October 13, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper said he’s not fazed by the negative press that he and all conservative politicians seem to get from Canadian media sources. “It doesn’t matter who the Conservative leader is – Joe Clark, Brian Mulroney, Kim Campbell, Preston Manning, Stockwell Day – you name the Conservative leader, the media doesn’t like them,” Harper said in an interview with the Calgary Sun. “I don’t expect any [sic]Âdifferent, to be honest.” “Remember the predictions,” Harper said, outlining how mainstream media sources had consistently predicted his failure. “I was never supposed to be […]

Dobson Clarifies Insight Offered by White House on Nominee Miershttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/122005a.asp Promotion of Miers’ Religion ‘Appalling,’ Group Says

Protection of children from sexual abuse by known child porn users not a priority

Opposition questions whether corrupt Liberal government can be trusted to monitor others

GLASGOW, October 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With the developed world’s highest teen pregnancy rate, at 8.7% of all pregnancies occurring in girls under 16, Glasgow authorities are admitting defeat, according to one author. The latest evidence of the failure of the sex education program is a poll commissioned by Glasgow City Council, aimed at 200 schoolchildren aged 13 and older, asking them about their sexual experiences, such as how many sexual partners they have had and whether or not they have had oral sex. One writer maintained that the fact that the city council is asking the question is an […]

MANILA, October 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has announced that family planning monies from the United Nations will be used to promote effective modern natural family planning methodsÂrather than artificial contraception and abortion as the UN monies are used in many other nations. The announcement has received praise from Cebu Cardinal Ricardo Vidal, who has called on promoters of artificial means of birth control to withhold legislative counter-measures until the success of the natural family planning can be assessed. Fides news agency reports that President Macapagal-Arroyo announced the imminent adoption of the method in the Philippines during […]

LOS ANGELES, October 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has been under increasing pressure from lawsuits and criminal proceedings to release the confidential personnel files on priests accused of sexual abuse of minors. Today the Archdiocese made public a 155 page document it is calling an “Addendum” to its 2004 report on sexual abuse. The document, however, gives the courts, victims and media only a heavily edited version of the Archdiocese’s priest files that gives few details and only the barest possible bones of the facts. Even so, the Addendum shows a long-term policy of shuffling homosexual […]

CALGARY, October 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Albertans are invited to participate in an on-line “e-referendum,” launched yesterday to oppose the legalization of same-sex “marriage” by the Canadian federal government earlier this year. “The concerns of Albertans over the re-definition of marriage have been ignored by the Federal Government,” stated an Enshrine Marriage Canada (EMC)/ United Mothers, Fathers and Friends (UMFF) initiative. The group also criticized the failure of the Alberta government to do everything in their power to prevent same-sex “marriage” from becoming legal in their province. “The Alberta Government has not yet made good on its promise to exhaust […]

LONDON, October 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – British scientists will launch a study of the effectiveness of adult stem cells to treat heart disease. Various techniques of obtaining the cells will be tried including extraction from bone marrow and the use of growth factor drugs to stimulate their production in the blood.  The research was instigated by Ian Rosenberg, a man who traveled to Germany to undergo stem cell treatment for his heart condition. Rosenberg’s treatment was so successful that he set up a charitable foundation, the Heart Cells Foundation, to study the use of adult stem cells for heart disease. […]

ROME, October 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A telephone poll which conducted 1,002 interviews with Italian adults from September 6-12 has found that 70% are against same-sex ‘marriage’. The poll by Ipso Ltd. found that 27% said they were in favour of same-sex ‘marriage’ while 3% responded “not sure”. Homosexual activists in Italy often criticize the Catholic Church, with headquarters surrounded by the Italian capital, for interfering in the country’s politics. However, the Catholic Church’s stand on the matter goes far beyond merely opposing homosexual “marriage’. In 2003, the Vatican released the document “Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to […]

WINDSOR, Nova Scotia, October 11, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Scott Brison, Liberal Member of Parliament and Canada’s Public Works Minister, has announced that he is getting ‘married’. Brison, the first openly gay federal minister, announced to the Globe and Mail that Maxime St. Pierre, his same-sex partner of six months, has recently proposed. Commenting on the media’s interest in his personal life Brison said, “I’m looking forward to the day when the idea of… a gay or lesbian politician getting married is not a story at all.’’ Brison was once a Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative MP. As a member of the […]

Was Terri’s Autopsy the Final Word?https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46735 What’s Wrong with Conservatives?https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46753 Groups Protest Boy Scouts’ ‘Discrimination’https://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_282234859.html Michigan priest’s book on homosexualityhttps://www.renewamerica.us/columns/abbott/051010 Homosexual men unfit for priestly servicehttps://www.cwnews.com/offtherecord/offtherecord.cfm?task=singledisplay&recnum=3113 Homosexuality in Theological Perspective, Part Onehttps://www.christianpost.com/article/editorial/514/6%7C13%7C20/homosexuality.in.theological.perspective.part.one/1.htm  More on that Seminary Documenthttps://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2005/10/more_on_that_se.html Red tape has driven me out, says clone pioneerhttps://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/11/npion11.xml The next little step: Human cloninghttps://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20051007-085519-2112r.htm Ethics: Rarely taught in medical schools or public schoolshttps://www.newstarget.com/004901.html Community Marriage Policy affirmed in 197th U.S. cityhttps://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=21823 England Faith Leaders Lobby Parliament Against Euthanasiahttps://www.christianpost.com/article/europe/550/section/england.faith.leaders.lobby.parliament.against.euthanasia/1.htm Leaders of powerful teachers National Education Association are overwhelmingly liberal: rank and file reflects political philosophies of country at-largehttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/102005g.asp Self-Labeled ‘Proud Homophobe’ in Campus […]

  EDINBURGH, October 11, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Keith Cardinal O’Brien addressed the civil leadership of his Archdiocese of Edinburgh on Sunday, saying that the Scottish Parliament is passing “unjust and immoral laws” that have no “natural or rational basis” and are destroying Christian culture. The laws O’Brien referred to are in the same line as those being enacted in other countries to grant homosexual couples equivalent status to genuine marriage and to allow homosexual partners to adopt children. Perhaps most alarming was a recent move by the Scottish Parliament to prohibit public criticism of homosexuality by religious leaders. The occasion […]

TORONTO, October 11, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Toronto Star, the largest circulation paper in Canada, has printed a columnÂwhich is being regarded by some Catholics as a clear case of inciting hatredÂtowards the Catholic Church. Celebrated Star columnist Joey Slinger’s column entitled “With this Vatican, all’s fair in faith and war” appears in the ‘news’ section of today’s paper on page A2. The Star, often referred to as the Red Star by critics, has a long history ofÂbias in its reporting ofÂstories related to traditional morality and any institutions supporting that morality. In the column, Slinger takes issue with the […]

LOS ANGELES, October 11 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) – In 2003, a 21 year-old student, Hoa Thuy Tran, died after taking the abortion drug regimen, RU-486, and now her family is suing the deadly drug’s US marketer. ‘‘She was not given any warnings of any risk of death, of any risk of infection,’’ said attorney Mark G. Crawford, who is representing Tran’s husband, Charlie Nguyen, and her 5-year-old daughter. According to the suit which was filed last week in Orange County Superior Court, Tran took Mifeprex on Dec. 23, 2003 at a Planned Parenthood clinic. She collapsed and died six days later. […]

LOS ANGELES, October 11, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A soon-to-be released motion picture about the partial birth abortion debate is already attracting comment says its creator. A Distant Thunder is an independent 35-minute film created by Jonathan Flora, a writer and director who works for Disney. “A Distant Thunder… is a supernatural, courtroom thriller that … is generating awareness and dialogue about a topic surrounded by a great deal of misinformation and controversy,” said Flores. In an online interview, Flora said, “This project is not the norm for Hollywood. It has a very specific viewpoint and it goes against the current […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, October 11, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Harvard study has concluded that the sexual content of modern movies has become far more explicit than even 13 years ago – to the degree that a movie rated PG-13 today would have garnered an R-rating in 1992. The researchers concluded that “the MPAA [Motion Picture Association of America] applied less stringency in its age-based ratings over time for the period of 1992-2003.” In other words, as time went on, a PG rating became more and more meaningless, and was no guarantee that the film was free of the graphic sexual imagery […]

LONDON, October 11, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Days after expanding into Germany, the Swiss euthanasia provider, Dignitas, revealed plans to open a counterpart in Britain. The Independent On Line revealed Sunday that Dignitas, the Swiss euthanasia group responsible for killing 453 people since its launch by Ludwig Minelli in Zurich in 1998 – including 37 Britons – will open a centre in the UK, based on a claim of “growing demand.” The move was announced as Cardinal Cormac Murphy- O’Connor and the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, stepped up their opposition to a proposal before the House of Lords to […]

ROME, October 11, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Turin hospital resumed testing of the abortion pill, RU-486, despite Italy’s health minister putting a halt to the experiments last month. The hospital’s actions prompted the Vatican to denounce the move as an “act against life.” Health Minister Francesco Storace halted the experiments being conducted at Sant’Anna hospital in Turin September 21, after the hospital had already committed 26 chemical abortions with the drug over a period of two weeks. The hospital has decided to resume the so-called experiment despite the ban, beginning October 17. “Our goal was to resume the experiment, so […]

Communist China, Communist Cuba, Islamist Iran requested change

Sen. Brownback May Nix Miershttps://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/10/7/113900.shtml Schlafly: President Bush’s Women Are Pro Choicehttps://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/10/7/85110.shtml Miers a timid and tepid pick – by Mona Charenhttps://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/monacharen/2005/10/07/159703.html Miers selection scandalous – Charles Krauthammerhttps://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/charleskrauthammer/2005/10/07/159653.html Roy Moore: Bush too sensitive to Senatehttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46700 Dobson question his support for Miershttps://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/politics/12831766.htm Attorney Laments Roberts Court’s Refusal to Hear Religious Freedom Casehttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/62005b.asp Hollywood director makes film about abortionhttps://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_9795.shtml Ave Maria Law School Alums Upset By Removal of Pro-Life Champion Charles Rice https://thewandererpress.com/a10-13-2005.htm Catholic politicians and communion: Cardinal says that Gospel, Church Magesterium must be accepted to receive https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=5083 Hearing Discusses Ways to Help Marriage https://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0038163.cfm Multiculturalists, Secularists Unhappy With UK Religious […]

Catholic Insight publisher/editor says it is attempt to water down Vatican document

NIGOU, October 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Though the Chinese government, bowing to international pressure, has made the use of physical force illegal as a means of coercing sterilization, the One Child policy is still in effect and brutal tactics are being used to enforce it in many regions. In Nigou, families have been arrested and jailed to try to coerce their women relatives to undergo sterilization. A report appearing in Wednesday’s Chicago Tribune says that local “family planning” officials claim to know nothing about the illegal detention. Despite the 2002 law reforms, the Chinese government is as dedicated to its […]

BERLIN, October 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – HIV infections in Germany have skyrocketed by 20 percent in the first half of 2005, with a majority of cases in homosexual men, according to recently released figures. The Robert Koch Institute revealed that 1,164 people contracted the incurable virus between January and June of this year; 60 percent of new cases were among homosexual males. After analysing the results, the institute said the risk of contracting the disease is twice what it was in 2001, and is at its worst level in 10 years. “Developments regarding this avoidable infection is a reason for […]

PANAMA CITY, October 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Panama’s lawmakers are considering broad-sweeping changes that would criminalize any criticism of homosexuality, and make homosexuality legal in the largely Catholic nation. The Legislative Assembly there is considering a measure that would allow individuals to define their gender as whatever one conceives of themselves, “whether that be that of a man, a woman or of some other non-conventional way that may or may not coincide with one’s biological sex,” according to a Catholic News Agency report. In addition, sexual orientation will be determined by assessing “the gender to which one feels primarily attracted.” […]

SEOUL, October 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Church in South Korea announced that it would fund adult stem cell research with its own funds. The Archdiocese of Seoul said it would provide 10 billion won (US$9.6 million), with most of the money coming straight from diocesan coffers. Bishop Yeom Su-jeong, head of the funding committee said, “We plan to devote ourselves to saving human dignity above everything else … and raise awareness of respecting lives.” Contrary to the claims of much of the secular media, the Catholic Church does not oppose stem cell research. In Australia, the Archdiocese of […]

Harriet Miers isn’t qualified to play a Supreme Court justice on “The West Wing.”https://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/anncoulter/2005/10/05/159561.html Disappointed, Depressed and Demoralized: A reaction to the Harriet Miers nominationhttps://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/166quhvd.asp Conservatives Confront Bush Aides: Anger Over Nomination of Miers Boils Over During Private Meetingshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/05/AR2005100502200_pf.html New Questions From the Right On Court Pickhttps://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/06/politics/politicsspecial1/06nominate.html?ei=5094&en=463efd50c20a34c3&hp=&ex=1128571200&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print Peggy Noonan on Miers: another Bush administration “misstep” and “The real story continues to be that the president feels so free to stiff conservatives”https://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110007363 White House denies ‘God told me’ claims about Bushhttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46695 Would Canadians share avian flu vaccine with Americans? https://www.canadafreepress.com/2005/cover100605.htm Sovereignty or Subjugation: Tacking on an International Tax For the UNhttps://www.freecongress.org/commentaries/2005/051006.asp […]

NEW ORLEANS, October 6, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The warnings of a retired Catholic Archbishop of New Orleans that the disaster of hurricane Katrina was a manifestation of God’s punishments for sin have been reflected by the son of the celebrated evangelical leader, Billy Graham. Franklin Graham gave the other half of the message in an interview Tuesday with CNN, saying that the physical devastation left by Katrina is a call to conversion. Graham told CNN, “As a minister of the gospel, there are a lot of people in New Orleans that are praying that God will bring a stronger, moral […]

WASHINGTON, October 6, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former FBI Director Louis Freeh has gone public for the first time with his insider view of the Clinton presidency. Freeh says that former President Clinton’s scandals made him a constant target of FBI investigations. Freeh says in his new tell-all book, “Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out.” The Drudge Report says Freeh gave an interview with Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes, in which he said “My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal […]

GLENDORA, CA, October 6, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Internationally respected biochemist and one of the world’s leading experts in origin of life research, Fazale “Fuz” Rana and world renowned astrophysicist Dr. Hugh Ross claim to have developed a creation model that is testable, falsifiable, and predictive. For the first time in 80 years, such a model would move the evolution/creation debate from science vs. religion, to science vs. science. “As currently formulated, Intelligent Design is not science. It is not falsifiable and makes no predictions about future scientific discoveries,” says Dr. Rana.“At Reasons To Believe, our team of scientists has developed […]

CALGARY, October 6, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – During October, Canadians will see billboards with the message “Stop the cover-up” and a web address, www.abortionbreastcancer.ca The campaign, coordinated by the national educational pro-life group LifeCanada, and sponsored by pro-life groups across the country, will raise awareness of the link between abortion and breast cancer. “There are over 50 studies worldwide that have shown that abortion increases a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer but women are never warned about this risk,” said LifeCanada President Joanne Byfield. “We hope to change that.” Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women. In […]

CATANIA, October 6, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) -Â When Salvatore Crisafulli, 38, awoke Monday from a two-year long coma, his first word, according to his mother, was “Mamma.” Crisafulli was declared “nearly dead” by doctors after a serious auto accident that left him unresponsive. His physicians, guided by modern bioethics movement that frequently rates personal autonomy above the value of life, gave up treating him and his family became his primary caregivers. Crisafulli, a father of four, told Italian media through his brother, that he had heard and understood everything going on around him for two years and had been unable to […]

LINYI, October 5, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Human rights campaigner, Chen Guangcheng, the 34-year-old blind farmer who initiated a class-action suit against population authorities for human rights atrocities in the Linyi region of China, is under a form of house arrest normally “reserved for high-profile dissidents,” according to one source. After suffering a brutal attack and forcible detainment by Chinese population authorities last month, Chen has been confined to his home, with roads blocked and guards posted at the train stations to prevent outside visitors from attempting to reach him, according to a report from the Financial Press. According to Jerome […]

ROME, October 6, 2005 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – The president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care has stated flatly that Catholics cannot, in conscience, support a politician who favors legal abortion. Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan made his remarks in an interview with the Italian daily La Repubblica. He was responding indirectly to an intervention by Archbishop William Levada during the discussions of the Synod of Bishop. Archbishop Levada—the American prelate recently chosen by Pope Benedict XVI (bio – news) to be prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith—had asked other prelates to reflect on the question that had […]

HOLLYWOOD, October 6, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Appearing on CNN’s Larry King Live Tuesday, television personality Judith Scheindlin a.k.a. ‘Judge Judy’, came out in favour of homosexual ‘marriage’. Scheindlin, an outspoken judge who takes cases to be aired on television was thought by many to be conservative. Asked by Larry King about “gay marriage”, Sheindlin replied, “Who is it hurting? You know, my grandmother used to say who is it hurting? So, I ask you, Larry, if you have two adults and they happen to both be of the same sex and they love each other and they want to set […]

Harriet Miers Called ‘Fifth Vote Against Roe’https://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/10/5/130010.shtml From the Heart: Dobson Explains His Support for SCOTUS Nominee, His Trust in Bushhttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/52005a.asp Liberals set Commons calendar to avoid Canadian electionhttps://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051005/liberals_calendar_051005/20051005?hub=Canada I’m still one of you, Bush tells angry conservative supportershttps://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1811541,00.html Former Campaign Manager: Miers Pro-life in 1989https://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/politics/12809508.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp Miers confusion: Catholic? Evangelical? Anti-Abortion?https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/05/politics/politicsspecial1/05miers.html?ei=5065&en=0ac6e45221c7da19&ex=1129089600&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print In coma for 2 years, patient says he heard allhttps://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9599492/ Miers revolt brews among GOP senatorshttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46678 China abortion activist ‘beaten’https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4310866.stm Sharp rise in HIV infections in Germanyhttps://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/05/051005154539.7vtg0nws.html Gays Using Blogs to ‘Out’ Public Figureshttps://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9591678/ FDA to rule on sales of clones’ productshttps://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-te.clone02oct02,1,2263935.story?coll=bal-home-headlines&ctrack=1&cset=true Your DNA or else: Police to collect […]

WASHINGTON, October 5, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US National Right to Life Association approves of Harriet Miers as President Bush’s judicial nominee for the Supreme Court, according to NRLC executive director David N. O’Steen. “President Bush has an excellent record of appointing judges who recognize the proper role of the courts, which is to interpret the law according to its actual text, and not to legislate from the bench,” O’Steen wrote, according to a release. “We believe that Harriet Miers is another nominee who will abide by the text and history of the Constitution.” O’Steen described examples proving her pro-life […]

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, October 5, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) Law is now being seen by Canada’s judges as above religion. That was part of the message of David M. Brown, a constitutional law expert and lawyer who spoke at a September 29 symposium on “The Place of Religion in Society.” His speech marked an introduction to a weekend conference in Mississauga, Ontario sponsored by the Christian Legal Fellowship. On Friday September 30, the conference featured guest speakers such as Conservative Party Foreign Affairs critic, Stockwell Day, Liberal MP John McKay and Janet Epp Buckingham of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada. Brown has often […]

OTTAWA/AMSTERDAM, October 5, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Liberal dominated government committee looking into prostitution is recommending the Canadian government legalize solicitation so that prostitutes may legally offer sex for money. Meanwhile the mayor of Amsterdam has for the first time admitted that the Dutch experiment to curb abuse by legalizing prostitution has failed miserably. Policemen in Amsterdam’s infamous red light district were quoted by Dutch media Friday as saying, “We are in the midst of modern slavery.” Due to the legalization of prostitution in the Netherlands in 2000, police are hampered in confronting the horrors that are characteristic of the […]

HANOVER, October 5, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Swiss euthanasia provider, Dignitas, has expanded operations into Germany. Responsible for the killing of 453 people since its launch by Ludwig Minelli in Zurich in 1998, the assisted-suicide group Dignitas has now expanded into Germany with an office in Hanover, in the hopes of advancing the euthanasia cause in that country. “It’s about having a group here, that involves itself in the assisted-suicide debate,” Minelli said, while presiding over the inauguration of the new German office last week. “We want to give it a push.” Although Germany has not technically authorized euthanasia, doctors […]

Eugenic killing of 'defective' embryos certain to follow screening tests

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NEW ORLEANS, October 5, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New Orleans Archbishop Emeritus Philip J. Hannan, gave an interview Tuesday to the Catholic news website Spirit Daily in which he said in reference to hurricane Katrina, “I think it’s up to us to preach very strongly and candidly and directly to say that this was a chastisement from God.” The Archbishop, 92, stayed in the suburb of Metarie during the hurricane and was believed missing for a few days while phone lines were down. Archbishop Hannan who led the diocese from 1965-1988, explained his belief that the hurricane was a Divine chastisement […]

BOSTON, Massachusetts, October 5, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com)—Church goers in Massachusetts participated in a massive blitz this past weekend to obtain signatures on a petition calling for a public vote on same sex marriage. The effort, organized by Vote On Marriage, gathered 25,000 of the 65,825 signatures needed by the Nov. 23 American Thanksgiving. If successful, the question will be added to the 2008 statewide ballot. The petition, which supports a constitutional amendment banning homosexual marriage, has the backing of the state’s four Roman Catholic Bishops and other conservative leaders including former Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn. Massachusetts is the only U.S. state […]

Bush pick supported International Criminal Court, homosexual adoptions, women in combat, tax hikehttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46641 Sekulow Says Miers in ‘Conservative Mainstream’ https://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/10/3/153004.shtml Conservatives ‘Betrayed’ By Bush with Miers Pickhttps://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/10/4/111440.shtml Abortion Might Outgrow Its Need for Roe v. Wadehttps://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/02/weekinreview/02leland.html?ex=1128916800&en=bc0391ec28f191f0&ei=5065&partner=MYWAY Same-sex unions inviting litigationhttps://washtimes.com/national/20050930-115617-2233r.htm Wisconsin to house national embryonic stem cell bankhttps://msnbc.msn.com/id/9549062/ Attorney: gay priest gave dog Communionhttps://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_9747.shtml Young women lead the way in tearing down sex taboos: new US survey https://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/04/051004054737.fzs4blx5.html Cases of child abuse, neglect soar in Canadahttps://sympaticomsn.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051004/child_abuse_study_051004 Study on Sexual Reorientation Therapy Deflates ‘Coercion’ Accusationshttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/42005c.asp Unwed Births Plague United Stateshttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/42005d.asp Court Says Michigan Right to Stop Support to Faith-Based Teen Facilityhttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/42005e.asp […]

WARSAW, October 4, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A candidate for prime minister of Poland said Monday that homosexuality is “unnatural,” in comments made in an interview. Law and Justice party candidate Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, in an interview appearing in the Polish edition of Newsweek magazine, responded to a question asking whether homosexuality should be denounced. “It’s unnatural,” he said. “The family is natural, and the state must stand guard over the family.” The conservative Law and Justice party nominated the relatively unknown Marcinkiewicz after winning the country’s elections last month. They will form a coalition government with the liberal Citizens’ Platform party. […]

Tells Canadians, "Contact your MP and make it clear you are opposed to euthanasia"

Western nations still ignoring serious human rights abuses by Communists

No Action Planned by Canadian Bishops Re: Canada's UNFPA Support

WASHINGTON, October 4, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US Supreme Court will begin hearing oral arguments in its first assisted suicide case since 1997. The case, Gonzales v. Oregon, is the federal government’s challenge to Oregon’s assisted suicide law. It is also the first case for newly confirmed chief justice John Roberts, who joined the court September 29. The Supreme Court has been asked to decide whether the lower federal courts properly ruled that former Attorney General John Ashcroft overstepped his authority as attorney general by issuing a 2001 directive that applied criminal penalties to doctors who participate in physician-assisted suicide […]

HUNTINGTON, Conn., October 4, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Connecticut’s new law legalizing homosexual civil unions went into effect on Saturday, October 1, 2005. Stephen Bennett, Executive Director and founder of Stephen Bennett Ministries in CT, firmly stands in direct opposition to his State’s new law legalizing homosexual civil unions. Stephen Bennett is a man who once engaged in homosexuality for 11 years with over 100 male partners. He completely left the homosexual lifestyle in 1992. Bennett is now happily married to his wife Irene of 12 years. They are the parents of two little children, a boy and a girl. “This […]

LAVAL Quebec, October 4, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The mysterious deaths of two young Americans found at the bottom of a gorge in Laval Quebec was eminently preventable if Canadian government officials would have heeded the warnings of anti-trafficking organizations which contested the “exotic dancer” visas which allowed he men into the country.ÂÂ Mark Kraynak, 23, and Steve Wright, 20, entered Canada through an application by a male porn ‘modelling’ agency in the United States called French Connection Français (FCF) run by Stephan Sirard. The exotic dancer program, which opened wide the doors to the importing of foreign strippers in order […]

LONDON, England, October 4, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com)—Â A study, the results of which were reported in The Independent yesterday, indicates that toddlers who are looked after by their mothers develop significantly better than those cared for by nurseries, childminders or relatives. The report, presented by Penelope Leach, president of the National Childminders’ Association and one of the co-authors, shows that toddlers given nursery care fared worst of all. According to The Independent these children “exhibited higher levels of aggression and were inclined to become more compliant, withdrawn or sad.” Those under the care of relatives fared somewhat better. The research, which […]

DENVER, CO, October 3, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Attendees at the 2005 Colorado Right to Life, State Meeting September 24, 2005 voted unanimously to adopt a resolution opposing the use of fetal tissue in the production of vaccines and proposing the development of ethical alternatives grown on cell lines which are not tainted with fetal tissue from aborted babies. Furthermore, the body calls upon the congress to pass the Fair Labeling and Informed Consent Act. (see www.cogforlife.org/flica.htm ) Proposed by Debi Vinnedge, Executive Director for Children of God for Life, the organization that launched the Campaign for Ethical Vaccines five years […]

Conservatives are “pretty demoralized” over President Bush’s surprise nomination of Harriet Miershttps://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/10/3/100307.shtml Supreme Court choice of Harriet Miers apparently pre-approved by Democratshttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46630 The Next Conservatism: Restoring the Reality Principlehttps://www.cwfa.org/articles/9082/CWA/misc/index.htm Sending babies to public school? That’s what Ontario’s doing with its child-care dollarshttps://www.westernstandard.ca/website/index.cfm?page=article&article_id=1062 Catholic churches lead drive for ban on gay marriagehttps://www.reformer.com/Stories/0,1413,102~29953~3078981,00.html Pope Benedict whacks ‘hypocritical’ secularistshttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46618 Seminary Reviews Not Just About Homosexuality, Says Prelatehttps://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=77435 Martin not shaken by loss of Catholic sacrament for supporting gay marriagehttps://www.brandonsun.com/story.php?story_id=5534 ‘Death lawyer’ Felos featured on educational cruisehttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46611 State threatens to close Christian ministry: Group files lawsuit, claiming ‘harassment, pure and simple’https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46609 The UN is […]

WASHINGTON, October 3, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Bush today nominated Harriet Miers to the United States Supreme Court to fill the seat of retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Harriet Miers, 60, is a longtime friend and adviser to President Bush. She represented him while he was Governor of Texas and has been serving as White House counsel, succeeding Alberto Gonzales who left that post to become Attorney General. In her role as White House counsel,ÂMiers has been instrumental in assisting the President in choosing and winning confirmation for judicial nominees. Previously, Ms. Miers was the first woman to lead a […]

BIRMINGHAM, October 3, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A police raid on a Birmingham brothel, where women from 10 different countries were forced into prostitution against their will, highlights the real loophole behind the modern slave trade – legal “sex trade” or prostitution. A special task force of female officers led 19 women out of the Cuddles massage parlour in Birmingham Thursday. It was later discovered that an electric fence at rear prevented the women from escape; other evidence of forced sex-trade labour included firearms and batons. Three persons were later charged with operating a brothel and with firearms offences. A police […]

LAPEER, Michigan, October 3, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Euthanasia campaigner Dr. Jack Kevorkian, in an interview from prison, said he would not perform euthanasia if his 10-25 year second-degree murder conviction for killing a 52-year-old man in 1998 is commuted by Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm before he is eligible for parole in 2007. Known as Dr. Death for his euthanasia of dozens of sick and disabled persons, Kevorkian demonstrated his recalcitrance describing the reason for his incarceration as a “so-called crime.” When asked by MSNBC’s Rita Cosby what he would say to the Michigan governor if he knew she was watching […]

MONTREAL, October 3, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A lesbian woman from Quebec has won a human rights suit she filed after being denied in-vitro fertilization allegedly because of her sexual orientation, forcing the hospitalÂclinic to pay her $19,000. Helen Zylberszac charged that the McGill reproductive centre in Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital allegedly denied her IVF treatment in 2002 because she was not accompanied by a male partner. “One of the doctors said if I had of shown up with a man, they would have treated me,” she told CTV News. The Quebec Human Rights Commission decreed that the hospital pay her […]

OTTAWA, October 3, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A common Canadian political reality is the prevalence among federal politicians of ‘nominal’ Catholicism. In other words, Canada harbours many federal politicians who hypocritically enjoy the public esteem and respectability of calling themselves Catholic – often adding the self-appointed epithet “devout”– and love to be seen during election campaigns receiving communion from prominent bishops, but deny the Catholic religious tenets as it suits their political ambitions. A particular case in point is the current Prime Minister, Paul Martin, who has presided over the passage of some of the most socially destructive legislation in Canada’s […]